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WeeabooHunter69 t1_j4l6aib wrote

It's interesting seeing languages mingle almost in realtime, and Japanese is a perfect example. They have a whole script primarily for loan words or foreign names and historically have a lot of words adapted from Portuguese, but have been taking more and more from English as the digital age goes on to the point that younger people can use a lot of English words without even being conscious of it. To make things even more complicated, English ends up taking a lot of words that were already loans from english, especially from video games, HP, ring out, level up, etc. Are all words that went from English to Japanese and back and we don't even think about it.

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